399 Quotes by Geno Auriemma

I don't think they've surprised anybody in the Big East with their performance this season. They're going to be an NCAA-level team for a long time.

It's a reminder to ourselves that as good as we can be at times, as good as we can look for long stretches, we're not all there. We're not completely there, mentally or physically.

We can't run a play. We can't get into any kind of offense. For us, it was hard to find people to contribute. (Rutgers) got contributions from a lot of people.

I don't think we forced the ball and tried to make plays that are hard to make. We tried to keep it simple. You look at it, how many turnovers should you have when you play Albany? Seven is a good number. If it were 17, I'd be really disappointed. But those seven could easily be 17 or 20 next week against a better team. You hope it gets better every game where our guys see things.

If we play as well as we're capable of playing, we're going to win (tonight) regardless of what Rutgers does. If we don't play our 'A' or to the best of our ability, then there's a pretty good chance that if Rutgers plays well we're going to lose. And that's the way it should be when you play against a really good team. But, you know what? We're home. We're in our building. And the expectation level is we're going to win. That's the bottom line.

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what? I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what? I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.

We commit some of the dumbest fouls I've ever seen. I don't think other teams foul as much as we do.

How many minutes? I would say 4,240 of those have been outside the lane, so there's no chance of getting hit and worn down. She's skating from blue line to blue line and enjoying life.

If that's the way they had it planned, then I would say that's pretty good planning.